The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
My favorite color is rainbow.
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
When I'm drawing a picture, I feel. . . quiet inside.
Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.
Especially when you're faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that's what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.
It's all about letting the story take over.
I think one of the things that makes theater special is first of all, it's one of the last places you put your phone away. And second of all, it's one of the last places where we all have a common experience together.